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The waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bouwsma, William J. (William James), 1923-2004
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2000]
Series:Yale intellectual history of the West.
Subjects:
Europe > Intellectual life > 16th century.
Europe > Intellectual life > 17th century.
Renaissance.
Science and civilization.
Astronomy, Renaissance.
Humanism.
Table of Contents:
  • The cultural community of Europe
  • The liberation of the self
  • The liberation of knowing
  • The liberation of time
  • The liberation of space
  • The liberation of politics
  • The liberation of religion
  • The worst of times
  • Renaissance theater and the crisis of the self
  • Toward a culture of order
  • The reordered self
  • The quest for certainty: from skepticism to science
  • The decline of historical consciousness
  • Order in society and government
  • Order in religion
  • Order in the arts.